1 And Jehovah said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and your entire family for I have observed you righteous before Me during this time.
2 Take seven of every pure beast, the male and his female, with you. Take two of beasts that are not pure, the male and his female.
3 Also, take seven birds of the air, the male and the female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the Earth,
4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the Earth forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe every living thing that I have made from the face of the Earth."
5 And Noah did everything that Jehovah commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the Earth.
7 And Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark from the presence of the waters of the flood.
8 Pairs of pure beasts, and of beasts that are not pure, of birds, and of everything that walks on four legs on the Earth,
9 went, two by two, both the male and the female, to Noah and into the ark as God had commanded Noah. *
10 And after seven days, the waters of the flood were upon the Earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12 And the rain continued to fall on the Earth forty days and forty nights.
13 Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark on the same day
14 They, and every beast of each kind, and all the cattle of each kind, and every four-legged thing that walks on all fours on the Earth of each kind, and every bird of each kind.
15 And they went in to Noah into the ark, pairs of all living things in which is the breath of life.
16 And all living things that went in, went in male and female, as God had commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.
17 And the flood was on the Earth forty days, and the waters multiplied and lifted the ark, and it was raised high up above the Earth. *
18 And the waters were mighty and were increased greatly on the Earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the mighty waters multiplied exceedingly on the Earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The mountains were covered by the mighty waters to a depth of fifteen cubits [more than 20 feet] over the top.
21 And all living things that had moved on the Earth died, birds, cattle, beast, every four-legged thing that walks on all fours on the Earth, and every human,
22 Everything that lived on dry land and that had the breath of life in their nostrils died.
23 And every living thing on the face of the ground was destroyed: man, cattle, the four-footed things, and birds of the heaven were destroyed from the Earth, and only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
24 And the waters were mighty on the Earth for a hundred and fifty days.